With external financial assistance, our development efforts could be accelerated.

I, therefore, welcome our commitment to increase our official development assistance.

Our assistance to Afghanistan has a long term perspective.

We are a country that believes in the assistance of the United Nations, and we demonstrate our faith through our openness, generosity and transparency with the Organization.

We wish to reaffirm our commitment to the region, including our intention to provide assistance, in cooperation with the international community, to advance the Kosovo Standards Implementation Plan.

Some of our colleagues died while trying to provide assistance.

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And with respect to Southern Africa, our humanitarian assistance is expected to exceed 12 million before the end of the year.

In accordance with that position, we have made multifaceted health care aid to the continent an essential component of our assistance.

Australia recently provided an update of our bilateral counter terrorism assistance activities for inclusion in the CTC's Assistance Matrix.

With the critical assistance of the United Nations and with commendable donor partnership, our Transitional Government has made definite gains in the execution of its mandate.

Our official development assistance (ODA) programme has a focus on poverty elimination, with a core, but not exclusive, focus on the Pacific.

We have undertaken to double our official development assistance in four years and are meeting our yearly targets.

IOM works with our Member and Observer States, and with other States on occasion, to provide appropriate assistance in any of the areas noted under point (1).

This year, we increased our official development assistance by 23 per cent.

Assistance provided in solidarity with those who need it is one of the essential pillars of our country's foreign policy, and our cooperation programme has been ongoing for more than 40 years.

So with that technology and that data and the ability to, with machine assistance, transcribe speech, we've now transcribed well over seven million words of our home transcripts.

Working together, our countries identified a number of innovative mechanisms designed to generate assistance flows additional and complementary to official development assistance.

We submitted our new requests for assistance to the CTC in January 2005.

Last year, our development assistance exceeded its 2000 level by 90 per cent.

We are also stepping up our technical assistance to strengthen economic policy making in Africa, and opening two new regional technical assistance centers.

We continue to need the cooperation and assistance of friendly countries to supplement our resources, which still fall short of our needs.

In the early phase of that national recovery, our people and our nation received generous support and assistance from the international community.

Despite everything, our countries, including my own, with their very meagre resources but a good deal of imagination and diversified international assistance, have achieved honourable results.

Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.

Secondly, we have strengthened our methodology for the identification of States' needs for technical assistance.

We will therefore continue to need assistance in those areas that are beyond our capacity.

And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.

We the Governments must effectively coordinate our respective involvement, demonstrate flexibility and concentrate our assistance on needs and demand in order to best support and strengthen the central role of the United Nations in coordinating international humanitarian assistance.

For our part, Japan has provided humanitarian assistance in the form of blankets and food aid.

This assistance is in addition to the funding we require for our recovery and reconstruction efforts.

With the foreign diplomatic authorities (Embassies, Consulates) in our country in 12 cases, regarding the provision of assistance and protection to the victims citizens of their respective countries.

Mr. Bryant The people of Liberia extend their profound thanks to the United Nations for its continued assistance in dealing with the challenges that our country has faced.

As a society, we are gambling with our big banks, with our nuclear power facilities, with our planet.

By 2006, we will fulfil the Monterrey commitment, and by 2008 our official development assistance will reach 0.5 per cent of our gross domestic product.

The Solomon Islands' call for assistance posed a key peacebuilding test that the nations of our region, under the framework of the Forum's Biketawa Declaration, met with collective resolve.

As to national aid, we intend to increase our volume of official development assistance to 0.51 per cent of our gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010.

For our part, the Government and the people of Malaysia will continue to extend assistance, within our limited means and capacity, to the people of Palestine.

As a beneficiary of this development assistance, Micronesia remains grateful for the support of our donor partners and the international donor community for the continued assistance extended to us.

As a result, we have asked the Secretary General for technical assistance from the United Nations specialized agencies to help us hold elections and strengthen our democracy, complementing the work being carried out by the Organization of American States with assistance of the European Union.

Our third concern is that the tables do not distinguish between indicators based on surveys conducted by national statistical offices (perhaps with funding assistance) or those conducted by international agencies.

Over one third of our cooperation funding is provided within the framework of multilateral assistance, and the increase over the past few years has, of course, also benefited bilateral assistance.

In that regard, we take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to UNICEF and other international partners for their valuable support and assistance for our endeavours.

We are prepared to provide assistance to other States to develop national legislation and to share our experiences.

We are improving the instruments at our disposal in line with relevant General Assembly resolutions in order always to respond impartially and to provide more predictable assistance wherever it is required.